PART 7

Satan was not created to be the Destroyer of Man!

Satan was created as the Archangel, Lucifer, who was once the highest ranking and most powerful of all the Angels in Heaven. (The other two Archangels are Michael and Gabriel). In the beginning, not one of all the Angels in heaven including Michael or Gabriel, could go directly to God the Father without Lucifer's permission.

After creating man for His own pleasure, God himself would come down into the Garden and commune (talk) with Adam; thus, man had direct contact with God. And that made Lucifer jealous, therefore, he set out on a quest to bring man under his control.

Speaking about Satan, Ezekiel said, "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God [he was there to deceive Adam and Eve]. Every precious stone was thy covering, the Sardis, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day thou was created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set thee so: [meaning the highest ranking of all the other angels] you were upon the Holy Mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [the many planets].

You were perfect in thy ways from the day thou was created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee," (Ezekiel 28:13-17).

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations," (Isaiah 14:12)! Just as God the Father rule's supreme in all three heavens, Satan seeks to be the supreme power over man and all the earth.

Satan was able to tempt man, because God created man in His own image (god of his own life), meaning that man had a choice in his destiny. Satan was successful in his attempt to deceive Adam and Eve, thereby becoming the god of the physical realm of life.

After Jesus was led up into the mountains to be tempted, "The devil said unto him, all this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore will worship me, all shall be yours. Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve," (Luke 4:6-8). "Again, the Devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and said unto him, all these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me," (Matthew 3:8-9).

Please understand that, when Satan offered the world to Jesus, he was not offering something that he didn't control. Make no mistake about it, Lucifer became the God of this world by deceiving Adam and Eve. God the Father created this world and gave control of it to man. Then, man through sin, gave control of it to Satan. So, as the ruler of spiritual darkness in this world, Satan is also god of the physical realm of life."

The Apostle Paul knew that to be true, which is why he said, "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom, the god of this world (Satan) hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is in the image of God, should shine into them," (2 Cor. 4:3-4). Satan is also known as the prince of darkness.

God loves us very much, and He sometimes shakes our foundation in an effort to bring about repentance. If this writing has shaken your foundation somewhat, then, pray this short prayer: "Create in me a clean heart, Oh God; and renew a right spirit within me."

AMEN

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